Bricks and Spiders and Water oh my!

As well as my Thomas the Tank Engine phobia on Page 4 and my Maths phobia on Page 5

I hate bricks
truly, I can't touch them without my teeth screaming.

when I was little, we made a little 'den' outside (really it was down the side of the house in the garden where there were things like poles, and fence panels and bamboo canes and plenty of bricks, a perfect place for young children to play.

anyway we used to sit on piles of bricks and one time when we had concluded the outside/den meeting for the day discussing whatever it is that 6 year olds discuss, I got up and saw that in the dimple of a brick I had been sitting on for about an hour there sat a massive hairy spider, easily took up the space in the brick. cue much screaming and never returning to that den. we climbed trees instead.

but I also hate the feel of them, if I catch my fingernails on a wall my teeth itch and I turn to cotton wool. not fun

Spiders
pretty obvious choice really, most are scared of them. I hate their stealthy little ways. you can be sitting watching TV perfectly happy before you notice the massive black fucker sitting on the floor in front of you. you've not noticed it get this far, how much further would it have got if you continued not to notice it and why did I notice it when it is so close?

also, one time I reached to get an apple from the fruit bowl when a very large spider curled its legs around it as if to say "My Apple, Mwahahahahaha" I prommptly dropped the apple and ran. unfortunately the falling apple did not kill the evil spider. and it had to be set free by my dad. (I don't like them killed, I just like them gone)

Water

ok, next to thomas the Tank engine and disabling emetophobia, this is my weirdest. I have a phobia of running water. I believe this stemmed from a trip to the beach when I was little.

I didn't want to go to the sea because I was scared of sharks. so I sat waaaay up the beach from my parents. eventually my mum decided that now is the time for me to stop being scared and comes to take me paddling with my sister, while I held her hand. we walked down to the sea and I went in the shallows. not 3 steps into the sea when a massive and I mean tital wave style wave covers me and knocks me over, I couldn't breathe, I couldn't see, I was so scared I was going to die. my mum takes me back to the beach, screaming. (when I say tidal wave it was enough to cover a 4 year old me)

since that day, I would have nightmares about the bath overflowing when my parents had a bath at night, I was convinced they would al die and I'd be alone in the flooded house. I went through a rather disgusting phase of not flushing the toilet as I thought it would overflow and kill everybody or that monsters would come out. needless to say I got over that one, still, I hate the noise it makes and sometimes I can be seen running away from the toilet once I've flushed it.


Apologies for length, but my god, there's something wrong with me!
(Katzilla Follow Me! @Kat_Zilla (I don't promise funnehs), Fri 11 Apr 2008, 10:45, 5 replies)

Ahhh...
nice post.
I especially like the bit about 'teeth screaming' that's a feeling I know very well.
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Fri 11 Apr 2008, 10:59, closed)

to anyone who's scared of spiders
watch phil jupitus' stand-up show quadrophobia. you'll laugh your arse off.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 11 Apr 2008, 11:50, closed)

I've done that running from the toilet thing before.
In a small echoing room, it sounded as if the toilet was roaring at me!
(ShitBitch, Fri 11 Apr 2008, 12:31, closed)

toilets
are scary things

I will watch that phil jupitus if Ican find it, my hatred of spiders is perhaps more hatred than phobia. but I had a horrific spider moment the day before my birthday in the 20 mins it took for my man to go get takeaway

I went upstairs to the bathroom. mid pee a massive spider lands on my leg! I screamed and threw my trousers off watching it scuttle away. tried to kill it but it was too quick. then I got dressed again after checking for spiders three times and went back down the stairs. the cat ran past me on the stairs and I fell in a crumpled heap on the floor. needless to say I had a story to tell when my boyfriend returned to see me massaging my back at the bottom of th stairs.

curse you spider!
(Katzilla Follow Me! @Kat_Zilla (I don't promise funnehs), Fri 11 Apr 2008, 12:59, closed)

Oddly enough
"(something nasty happens) and kills my parents" is a very common fear amongst 5-10 yearolds. Pretty much hard wired as a fear of being left alone to fend for yourself or die which is pretty rational in a small child.

Younger children mostly haven't quite got the hang of death and don't often exhibit this fear.
( DukeEuphoria Comes highly reccomended, Fri 11 Apr 2008, 16:23, closed)